The day started with the WhatsApp acquisition by Facebook hanging over entrepreneurs. Everyone is a bit stunned at the price, so it certainly was a topic of discussion at the roundtable.

During this week’s roundtable, we saw some really nice businesses, at least a couple of them seem perfectly viable to me.

Fish Harmony
First up, Nancy Coughlin comes to us from Startup Weekend Jacksonville in Florida, pitching Fish Harmony, a mobile app for fish lovers who need to manage fish tanks, assuring that only compatible fishes are put together. There’s a variety of context-specific, personalized functions that make this a wonderful web 3.0 opportunity.Scandid
Next, Madhur Khandelwal from India pitched Scandid, a mobile shopping app for the Indian market that focuses on searching for products, comparing prices online and offline, searching for coupons, etc. Again, a perfectly viable, revenue-generating product that already has angel financing, and is trying to decide on the right strategy for building the business to its full potential. The discussion was extremely interesting, and hopefully, the audience learned a fair bit from it.

Atrivu
Last up, Jim McMichael from Thousand Oaks, California, pitched Atrivu, an Artificial Intelligence engine that he wants to sell to a broad set of B-to-B customers. The product needs positioning and a go-to-market strategy to make it in the market.

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